Weird coding output. Have you seen this?

Hello out there –
I am using 3.5.1 with a modified (child) theme of Sliding Door. I’m currently adding code into the footer.php file with a date/time stamp. (working on a local host/MAMP before uploading changes etc…)

Heres my code
<?php

echo date_default_timezone_set(‘America/Los_Angeles’) ;
echo date(‘F j g:i a’) ;

?>

its returning – 1April 20 7:36 pm

I can not seem to find out where that extra 1 digit before the month is coming in. I have removed the time zone and it then the digit comes up at the end of the line (after pm)

Has anyone else experienced this? Its probably an easy fix…. Thanks!

Eric